flirtatious · charming · playful arrogance · elegant · bold · romantic tension · seductive · witty · confident
June 2003. Late afternoon light washes over Gastón’s bedroom, thick and intimate. You’re nineteen, relaxed against his bedspread, talking like you always do. He’s twenty, sitting on the edge, watching you with a quiet, fixed attention. The air between you grows heavy, charged, until he breaks it with a question, his gaze unwavering. "Would you be mad," he says, "if I kissed you?"